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February 19, 2016

Stanford scientist weighs the risk of groundwater contamination from oil and gas wells

Source: http://news.stanford.edu, February 18, 2016 By: Mark Shwartz Faulty, shallow wells can leak oil and natural gas into underground drinking-water supplies, Stanford Professor Rob Jackson finds. Does living near an oil or natural gas well affect your drinking water? “The answer to the question is usually ‘no,’ but there are exceptions,” according to Rob Jackson, a […]

February 19, 2016

Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance Introduces Contractor's Protective, Professional & Pollution Liability Insurance in the U.S.

Source: http://www.businesswire.com, February 17, 2016 Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) today announced that it has launched a Contractor’s Protective, Professional and Pollution (CP3) Liability Policy, which is available on a primary and excess basis for practice or project-specific risks in the U.S. “This Policy is a natural next step in our development of meaningful, long-term […]

February 18, 2016

Ill. AG Sues Barrington Gas Station Owner Over Leak

Source: http://www.cspnet.com, http://www.cspnet.com, February 17, 2016 Court grants request for preliminary injunction SPRINGFIELD, Ill. — Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan has filed a lawsuit against the owner of a Lake County gas station over a gasoline leak that caused soil and groundwater contamination and vapors to enter nearby residents’ homes. Madigan’s filed the complaint in […]

February 18, 2016

Manufacturers Pay to Clean Up Contaminated Water in NY

Source: http://www.environmentalleader.com, February 17, 2016 By: Jessica Lyons Hardcastle Honeywell and Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics must pay to clean up a toxic chemical found in a New York village’s drinking water. The Associated Press reports that the New York Department of Environmental Conservation sent a letter to the two industrial companies demanding that they finance a […]

February 18, 2016

Clean-up underway at contaminated site in Nevada

Source: http://amestrib.com, February 16, 2016 BY; Sarina Rhinehart Clean-up has begun on the former Dairy Queen site in Nevada, where a leaking underground gasoline tank has contaminated soil and groundwater in the area. The building, at 436 E. Lincoln Way, had been a Kerr-McGee Service Station from 1955-82, and the Story County Board of Supervisors […]

February 18, 2016

Landmark Aviation requests dismissal of lawsuit over environmental contamination at site near Smith Reynolds Airport

Source: http://www.journalnow.com, February 17, 2016 By: Richard Craver A local aircraft maintenance company denies most claims in a lawsuit filed by Piedmont Advantage Credit Union for damages related to “significant environmental contamination” to a nearby building it owns. The credit union filed the lawsuit against Piedmont Hawthorne Aviation LLC, doing business as Landmark Aviation. The […]

February 18, 2016

Gov. Brown proposes $177 million for Exide lead contamination cleanup

Source: http://www.scpr.org, February 17, 2016 By: Elizabeth Aguilera After years of silence, Gov. Jerry Brown Wednesday asked California state lawmakers to spend nearly $177 million for expedited testing and cleanup of lead contamination in communities around the former Exide plant in Vernon. “This Exide battery recycling facility has been a problem for a very long […]

February 18, 2016

Specialty Intermediaries: Solving Risk Management Problems

By: Jefferey S. Lejfer, CPCU Chief Executive Officer New Day Underwriting Managers LLC I’ve had the good fortune to be in the property and casualty industry for over 40 years. In that time while I’ve had a limited number of employers I’ve had the experiences of many different positions. Our endeavor at New Day started […]

February 16, 2016

KB Home to settle on statewide construction defects

Source: Orlando Sentinel (FL), February 15, 2016 Posted on: http://www.advisen.com KB Home reached a settlement with the Florida Attorney General’s Office involving construction defects, failure to disclosure problems to buyers and denial of home-warranty claims for 1,688 houses across the state. At the core of the state’s three-year investigation were construction defects that led to […]

February 16, 2016

RIVERSIDE: Second cleanup of contaminated site planned

Source: http://www.pe.com, February 16, 2016 By: Alicia Robinson The former Riverside sewer plant property will have more soil removed, more tests if state approves. A plan for the second cleanup of a contaminated former sewer plant site in Riverside is awaiting state approval in what appears to be an unprecedented situation. Development of homes was […]

February 16, 2016

Yet Another Study Links Fracking And Water Contamination

Source: http://www.triplepundit.com, February 16, 2016 By: Tina Casey Last summer the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency came out with a draft report on fracking and drinking water contamination that appeared to be a cry for help. The EPA’s state-of-the-science assessment concluded that no widespread impacts could be discerned. But the agency further concluded that data scarcity […]

February 12, 2016

Rapid cleanup sought for Marinwood’s former dry cleaner site

Source: http://www.marinij.com, February 11, 2016 By: Stephanie Weldy Marinwood community members gathered this week to call for a faster, more aggressive approach to cleaning up contaminants from a former dry cleaner at Marinwood Plaza. Some want more teeth in the cleanup proposal headed to regulators; many just want cleanup to get underway as soon as […]

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